PARIS:
During an Olympic cycling road competition on Saturday, protesters in Paris demonstrated their support for Palestine.
Demonstrators wore keffiyehs and wore Palestinian flags as they rode past the 20th arrondissement of Paris on bicycles. A well-known representation of Palestinian nationalism is the keffiyeh.
Wearing Palestinian flag-themed t-shirts, protesters chanted, Liberate Palestine.
Throughout the race, the French gendarme waited behind activists because he wanted them to take down their Palestinian flags.
In the meantime, hundreds of protesters gathered at the Place de la Nation to demand that Israel end its nearly ten-month-old attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian flags and banners with images of children killed by Israeli attacks were carried by the demonstrators.
Since the attack on Gaza on Oct. 7 by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, Israel has faced international condemnation for disregarding a UN Security Council resolution requesting an immediate cease-fire.
Local health authorities claim that since then, more than 91,000 Palestinians have been injured and more than 39,500 have died, most of whom were women and children.
A crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine has kept vast swaths of Gaza in ruins for nearly ten months since the Israeli invasion.
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians had sought refuge, after Israel was accused of genocide.
